Starch ing-machine



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STARGHING MACHINE.

No. 391,633. Patented Oct. 23, 1888.

(No Model.)

H. MONK.

2 Sheets-Sheet 2 STARGHING MACHINE.

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HENRY MONK, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

STARCHING =IVlACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,633, dated October 23, 1888.

Serial No. 251.805. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY MONK, of Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State ofMassachusetts, a citizen of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Starchiug-ll/Iachines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in explaining its nature.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple,quickoperating, and cheap machine for starching clothes, and especially the bosoms, collars, and wristbands of shirts; audit comprises various details of construction and organization, all of which will be hereinafter explained.

In the drawings, Figure l is a view in front elevation of the machine. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 8 is a detail view in vertical section taken from the center of the starching roll. Fig. 4; illustrates a slight modification.

A is the frame of the machine.

B is the starching-roll. It preferably has the peripheral circumferential corrugations b, and it is mounted at the front end of the shaft 1), which has two bearings--namely, the front bearing, b and the rear bearing, N. The front bearing comprises a block having a hole through which the shaft extends, and is held by suitable vertical guides which permit it to slide vertically, and aspring, b, bears against the block and maintains the roll B in yielding surface 0 of the starchingbed O, or the article of clothing thereon.

The bed 0 has in its under surface the guideways a, which fit the horizontal guides 0 upon which the bed is adapted to be moved horizontally. These guides c are supported by the bracket 0, bolted to the front of the frame A.

The bed 0 preferably has the corrugated surface 0 above referred to, and also the extension or section 0 in front of the end of the starching-rol], which is generally used as a support for a portion of the garment. The bed is provided with a reciprocating movement by means of the crank-pin d on the wheel D, the connecting-rod d, the lever d", pivoted at (Z and thelink (1*, connecting the upper end of the lever with the bed at (1 (See Fig. 1.) The crank-pin d is movable toward and from the center of the wheel D in the slot 6 ,formed therein, and is fastened thereto in any desired position, and the end of the connecting-rod d is secured to the lever d by a bolt or pin, (2 which is also vertically adjustable in the slot (2 in the lever. By these means the throw or extent of travel of the bed G is varied. The bed carries also a holding-bar, E, for holding the article of clothing to be starched on the traveling bed. This holdingbar is hinged at a (see Fig, 1) to the bed 0, and has a latch, e, pivoted to the bar E, and engages the catch 0 upon the bed 0. To the under surface of this bar is a cushion, e ofindiarubber or other flex ible materiahwhich bears upon the uppersurface of the article of clothing to be starched.

The bed 0, preferably, also has a roll, 6, held in a deep longitudinal recess formed therein, so that its upper surface shall project slightly above the upper surface, 0", of the bed, and when the bed is thus provided with the roll 0* it may be used, in conjunction with the cushion c to strip or remove surplus starch from the garment, the garment in that event being drawn forward from the holding-bar without raising it from the roll a, and the starch being wiped off the garment by the conjoint action of the cushion and the roll.

The wheel I) is mounted upon the shaft (1", which has hearings in the frame A. and bears a fast and loose pulley.

in operation the article to be starched is laid upon the upper surface of the bed 0 when at the end of its movement in one direction, the bar E being lifted. Of course only the article to be starched is placed upon the corrugated surface or section of the bed. The other portion or portions are upon the surface 0 The bar is then moved down and latched, binding the garment or thing tobe starehed to the bed. The starch is applied to the roll through a trough, F, held immediately above it, and having a small slit, f, through which the starch is delivered to the roll. The starch enters the trough from a starch-can, G, held upon the table y, and having a nozzle or tube, 9, which extends over the trough and is closed in whole or in part by a plug, g sufficient starch being permitted to escape from this tube to supply the roll. The machine is then set in operation, and the bed 0 moves rapidly backward and forward under the roll B, and the roll being held down upon the work by the spring I) is caused to be rotated upon its shaft backward and forward with the corresponding movements of the bed, so that the starch which is fed to its surface is caused to be driven into the garment or article being starched, and is efficiently and uniformly incorporated in it.

In lieu of a cushion, 6 on the holdingbar E there may be used a roll, 6 as shown in Fig. 4.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 1. In astarohingmachine, the combination, with the frame A, of the shaft 1), the springpressed bearing b for the forward end of said shaft, the fixed bearing b for the rear end of said shaft, the circumferentially-grooved roll B, attached to the front end of said shaft forward of the said spring-pressed bearing, and the reciprocating bed O, arranged beneath said roll outside of said frame and provided with longitudinal corrugations, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, in a starching-machine, of a roll, B, having a corrugated surface, b,

the bed 0, having the corrugated surface and the extension 0', the holding-bar E, and means for automatically imparting to the said bed 0 a backward-and-forward movement beneath the 'starching-roll, as and for the purposes described. i

3. The combination, with the frame A, of the shaft 1), the roll B, attached to the forward end of said shaft outside of the said frame, the bed 0, also outside of said frame beneath said roll, the rails or guides on which the said bed is mounted, the shaft d, the disk D, attached to the forward end of said shaft outside of said frame, the crank-pin d, adjustably secured to said disk, the lever d the connecting-rod d, adjustably attached to said lever, and the link (2, connecting said lever with said bed, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination, with the roll B and the bed 0, having a catch, e", of the roll e, sunk into said bed, but projecting slightly above its surface, the holding bar E, hinged at one end to said bed and provided with a starch-remover, and a locking-latch at the end of the said bar opposite to its hinged end, substantially as set forth.

HENRY MONK.

In presence of F. F. RAYMOND, 2d, FRED. B. DOLAN. 

